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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part III - The Last Hunters.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was the French salt tax called?
(a) Gabelle.
(b) Franc sel.
(c) Sels tax.
(d) Gabargent.

2. Who offered the English Puritans either Manhattan or Guiana as a place of refuge?
(a) The French.
(b) The Italians.
(c) The Germans.
(d) The Dutch.

3. Mid-Atlantic _____ stock is dwindling.
(a) Perch.
(b) Swordfish.
(c) Salmon.
(d) Grayling.

4. In Newfoundland, the government tried to resettle unemployed workers to _____, where there were jobs at the National Sea Products plant.
(a) Georgetown.
(b) Arnold's Cove.
(c) Princeton.
(d) Gin Cove.

5. Today, fish sticks are usually _____.
(a) Pacific pollock.
(b) Haddock.
(c) Pacific cod.
(d) Ling cod.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the name of the island that Thomas Croft and John Jay searched for in the Atlantic?

2. What are most houses in Iceland made out of now?

3. What was the original name of John Cabot?

4. Which mountain erupted in 1389 on Iceland?

5. What were lobsters considered to be by the Pilgrims?

(see the answer key)

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